TO

Years ago, the “other country” what is unknown to humans, but is known to monsters as a land of cryptids, mystic creatures, gnosts, and the forgotten dead, and existed between the veil of earth and Hell, was once a wondrous, thriving city, that is, until human fear was not enough to sustain its many citizens. Growing more and more desperate, they turned to their government for guidance, only for the government to propose one solution, consumption of Human flesh. So, in present day, 1916, every year, for a week in the small Applichian mining town of Tarmseworth, the unfortunate citizens (who happen to live right at the entrance to the other country without realizing it) have spent a decade preparing each year for what they call “Hideway Week” a week the citizens are not permitted to leave their homes or stay out past dark, in the hopes they won’t lose as many people as they did the years prior to the unspeakable horrors that come. No one has seen the creatures of the Other Country, since no one has lived to tell the tale. Bernadette Mendoza is a young Mexican-American girl, born of a laborer and a heiress who now lives by herself in her family home, with her parents away at the moment. Still, throughout her life, she’s documented these whispers of cryptids, even collecting evidence, documenting their origins, unaware she’s more connected to the other country then she may believe..